The British regulatory state : high modernism and hyper-innovation / Michael Moran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moran, Michael, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Administrative agencies--Great Britain.

Administrative agencies.

Legislative power--Great Britain.

Legislative power.

Public administration--Great Britain.

Public administration.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1945-.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford [Eng.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For the first two thirds of the 20th century the British government was among the most stable in the advanced industrial world. In the last three decades governing arrangements were in turmoil and the country became a pioneer in economic reform and public sector change. Michael Moran examines this contrast.

Contents:

""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""1. Introduction: From Stagnation to Hyper-Innovation""; ""2. Images of the Regulatory State""; ""Governance and the Regulatory State""; ""The Regulatory State as an American State""; ""The Regulatory State as a European Madisonian State""; ""The Regulatory State as a Smart State""; ""The Regulatory State as a Risk State""; ""The British State as a Regulatory State""; ""Crisis, Club Rule, and the British Regulatory State""; ""3. Creating Club Regulation""; ""Regulating Without a State""; ""Industrialism, Fear, and Club Rule""

""The Victorian Regulatory State""""Embedding the Victorian Regulatory State""; ""The Coming Crisis of Club Regulation""; ""4. Transforming Self-Regulation""; ""The Mosaic of Self-Regulation""; ""Understanding Transformation""; ""Mapping Self-Regulation""; ""Transforming Self-Regulation in Financial Markets""; ""Transforming Professional Regulation""; ""Transforming Sporting Regulation""; ""High Modernism and Self-Regulation""; ""5. Regulating Privatization""; ""Privatization in the Age of Hyper-Innovation""; ""Corporate Regulation and Club Government""

""The Theory and Practice of Privatization Regulation""""Regulating Business and Regulating Privatization""; ""6. Regulating and Colonizing Public Worlds""; ""Hyper-Innovation and Hyper-Politicization""; ""Reregulating the Metropolitan Machine""; ""Reregulating the Inspectorates""; ""Reregulating Quasi-Government""; ""The Colonization of New Regulatory Spheres""; ""Synoptic Legibility in the New Regulatory State""; ""7. From Stagnation to Fiasco: the Age of the Regulatory State""; ""The Teleology of the Regulatory State""; ""The Age of Globalization""; ""The Age of Europeanization""

""The Age of Fiasco""""The Fate of the British Regulatory State""; ""Afterword""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-229) and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-160199-3

0-19-153007-7

1-281-19059-4

9786611190590

1-4356-2180-8

OCLC:

648359760